old 2003 template to new location?

[grammatim]

grammatim wrote:

The "official" way (in Word 2003) is to click File > New and when the task
pane opens, click the link for "On my computer" and choose the template from
the dialog that appears. (Somebody at Microsoft really blew it on this one.)

I did discover that. One little problem -- it doesn't have a Browse
button, so I couldn't go find the old template (off on the D: drive)
to see what would happen!

The quick way is to open the Templates folder in Windows Explorer and
double-click the template you want to use; the default action for *.dot
files is "New" so Word will open with a document based on that template
instead of one based on Normal.dot.

Well ... I'll see if it works from such a long distance away ...

.... it worked, but it didn't have the customized toolbars.

If you're interested in a toolbar button that directly opens the Templates
dialog instead of mucking about in the stupid task pane, go to the Tools >
Customize dialog, select the category "All Commands", and drag the
FileNewDialog item to a toolbar.

As you can tell, I've never gotten into templates: when I need a near-
duplicate of a document, I open the document, Save As, and replace the
text.

In practical terms, an add-in in Word is just a template stored in the Word
Startup location. The articlehttp://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/WhatTemplatesStore.htmexplains
it.

Now why isn't info like that in any of the Word books??

 

[grammatim]

It's not clear whether this question is now about Word 2003 or Word 2007, so
here's how in both:

Word 2003: Choose New... on the File menu. This will open the New Document
task pane. Under Templates, choose "On my computer..." to open the New
dialog, where you will find specific document templates (including those
that ship with Word); if you've used a specific template "recently," it will
be on the MRU list in that task pane. I personally consider this
ridiculously inconvenient, so I have replaced the New button on my toolbar
(which creates a new document based on Normal.dot) with one that represents
the FileNewDialog command (Tools | Customize), which opens the dialog
directly.

Word 2007: Office Button | New opens the New Document dialog. In the panel
on the left, "My templates..." takes you to the old New dialog, and of
course there are myriad other options, including a raft of online templates
("Installed templates" gets you to the ones that ship with Word).

Yes, it's definitely clearer in 2007. Sure would be nice if I _had_
the template I customized during September.

Note that no one has offered to defend Vista's narcolepsy ...

 

[grammatim]

I did discover that. One little problem -- it doesn't have a Browse
button, so I couldn't go find the old template (off on the D: drive)
to see what would happen!


Well ... I'll see if it works from such a long distance away ...

... it worked, but it didn't have the customized toolbars.

My toolbars _are_ intact! All the commands and new buttons that I made
are still there. The only problem was that Word decided to put them
all on one line, so none of the customizations were visible; and I
placed my Menu Bar below my two rows of toolbars (Standard,
Formatting, and Reviewing).

 

[Graham Mayor]

My toolbars _are_ intact! All the commands and new buttons that I made
are still there. The only problem was that Word decided to put them
all on one line, so none of the customizations were visible; and I
placed my Menu Bar below my two rows of toolbars (Standard,
Formatting, and Reviewing).

Displaying toolbars on one line is the default for Word 2003. You can (if
you have not already done so) change the option from tools > customize >
options. Check the option to show full menus while you are there.

The settings to tools > options and autoformat as you type are not stored in
templates so you will need to go through those to set your preferences also.

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[Graham Mayor]

No, we are now, and have always been, talking about 2003.

That was never entirely clear

Yet you're the macros maven ...

Macros can be the best way to achieve some repetetive tasks and the only way
to achieve some others.

Then I don't know what you were referring to when you mentioned add-
ins in your earlier message.

Given how frequently you post, I assumed that you knew the basic principles
of how Word worked with templates. There is no essential difference between
the way Word 2003 and 2007 use add-ins.

Actually, my publisher is buying me Adobe CS4, because I will need to
use InDesign and probably Illustrator and (shudder) Photoshop. Acrobat
just comes with, and I don't expect to be using it for anything at
all. I took the 30-day trial download to start to get acquainted with
it. The most useful things Acrobat can do are crop pages of pdfs, and
combine parts of different pdfs. For creating pdfs, both pdf995 and
Perfectpdf ($5 at OfficeDepot) have worked fine.

If you have Acrobat it would be churlish not to use it in preference to the
cheap pretenders It also offers the useful ability to e-mail PDFs from
mail merge as attachments.

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[grammatim]

That was never entirely clear


Macros can be the best way to achieve some repetetive tasks and the only way
to achieve some others.

That was the response to your assertion that you don't know anything
special about programming.

Given how frequently you post, I assumed that you knew the basic principles
of how Word worked with templates. There is no essential difference between
the way Word 2003 and 2007 use add-ins.

What does that have to do with your use of the term "add-in"? Jay
explained it for me.

If you have Acrobat it would be churlish not to use it in preference to the
cheap pretenders It also offers the useful ability to e-mail PDFs from
mail merge as attachments.

"Is buying" means 'is in the process of buying'. I do not yet have it.
My 30-day trial expired after 30 days.

(I also have no reason to use Mail Merge or to email from inside some
other application.)

 

[grammatim]

Displaying toolbars on one line is the default for Word 2003. You can (if
you have not already done so) change the option from tools > customize >
options. Check the option to show full menus while you are there.

I changed it by dragging the toolbars back to where they're supposed
to be.

The settings to tools > options and autoformat as you type are not storedin
templates so you will need to go through those to set your preferences also.

But they must be stored somewhere, as they persist from document to
document!

 

[Jay Freedman]

I changed it by dragging the toolbars back to where they're supposed
to be.


But they must be stored somewhere, as they persist from document to
document!

Those settings are stored in the registry, in the key described at
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/DataKeySettings.htm. (For Word 2003,
the version number in the key's name is 11.0.)